From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 16:57:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A869F37BB84 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@earthlink.net) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip144.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.144]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21198; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4DNxEf12215; Sat, 13 May 2000 19:59:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 19:59:14 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: Omachonu Ogali , Brennan W Stehling , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000513195914.B11952@earthlink.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 02:35:34PM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > Alright, this is how it works. 3.x-STABLE is STILL the only TRUELY Stable > tree. the x.0 releases are meant to be releases which iron some stuff out, > and when the x.1 release comes out, that is when the tree becomes -STABLE. > PLEASE stop spreading this rumour about 4.0 not being ready for true use. As has been said by both committers and non-committers, 4.0-RELEASE is nothing at all like 3.0-RELEASE, and it is ready for use. Also, if you read cvs-all, you would notice that the majority of changes get MFC'd ONLY to 4-STABLE; although there are certainly still commits to RELENG_3, it's not the "actively developed" -STABLE branch anymore. > > -Stable progresses along with bugfixes and minor added features from > -CURRENT, and every so often a -RELEASE is taken as a snapshot from > -STABLE and given a new version number. -Current takes on the next major > revision number, but usually doesn't come out for a year to a year and a > half. > Nod. Just because there is a 5.0-CURRENT doesn't mean that there isn't going to be at least a 4.1-RELEASE and a 4.2-RELEASE. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message